GYCA organisation

22/05/2026

Zero tolerance to waste management 🌏🌱🌱💯

22/05/2026

🌏🌱🌱Eco champion SDG 13

22/05/2026

Today the Green youth climate Action continues the implementation of the Eco champion project at the summit senior secondary school, trash bin by successfully establishing the first eco school club at the summit senior secondary school,engaging over 50 pupils and teachers in particular climate action and sustainable waste management Activities. 🌱🌏
As part of today Activities waste bins were distributed across the school.



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15/05/2026

The High-Level Panel on Youth Priorities for Digital Sovereignty and Economic Opportunity in West Africa featured contributions from Mohamed Wurie Bah, Founder of Wivo Legal Tech 4 Africa; Ignatius Awutey, Strategist; Dembele Aminata, CEO of MASSAMOUSSO (Les Reines du Numériques); Christopher Greene, CEO of Syberlex Consulting; and Loveday Onyeanula, Coordinator of Nigeria Youth IGF.

Key Highlights from this panel:
1. Young people must be positioned as creators, innovators, and decision-makers within West Africa’s digital future.

2. Digital sovereignty requires stronger investments in local talent, digital skills, and youth-led innovation ecosystems.

3. Cybersecurity awareness and safer digital spaces are critical to protecting Africa’s growing digital economy.

4. Youth participation in internet governance and policy conversations must be strengthened across the region.

5. Regional collaboration between governments, startups, civil society, and private sector actors is essential for unlocking digital economic opportunities.

6. Greater inclusion of women and underserved communities in technology and digital leadership remains a priority.

15/05/2026

Safe Platforms, Child Online Protection and Online Trust panel led by Issaka Mamam Lourwana, Founder Digital Niger; Serge Mbengue, Meta Public Policy Manager, Francophone Africa; Pretty Tega Edema, Lecturer, Admiralty University of Nigeria.

Key takeaways:
Child online protection in West Africa cannot be solved by a single lever like restriction or technology alone. It requires a layered approach that balances access, safety, language inclusion, platform accountability, and updated legal frameworks. The internet experience of young users in West Africa is shaped more by platform design and algorithms than by local safeguards or parental systems. At the center of the discussion was a key question, how to protect children online without designing systems that quietly limit their participation, voice, and agency?

A question that emerges is this:
Are current safety systems actually protecting children, or are they mostly optimized for platform risk management and regulatory compliance?

What are your thoughts?

15/05/2026

We are excited to announce that GYCA will be holding its first community cleanup activity to promote a clean and healthy environment. We encourage all community members to join us as we work together to keep our environment clean, safe, and sustainable.”

champions
children villages
the beach

15/05/2026

Sierra Leone officially opened the 18th Edition of the West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF 2026) on Thursday, 14 May 2026, at the Miatta Conference Centre in Freetown, positioning the country at the center of regional discussions on internet governance, digital inclusion and emerging technologies.

The forum has brought together policymakers, regulators, private sector leaders, technical experts, civil society actors, youth representatives and development partners from across West Africa, with hundreds more joining virtually through online participation platforms.

Hosting WAIGF 2026 shows Sierra Leone’s growing leadership in regional digital policy conversations, particularly at a time when H.E President Julius Maada Bio serves as Chair of ECOWAS, reinforcing the country’s commitment to regional cooperation, integration and digital transformation across West Africa.

In her keynote address, the Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Madam Salima Bah called for stronger regional cooperation in guiding West Africa’s digital future.

“We cannot continue to approach Africa’s digital future as individual countries solving isolated problems. The challenges of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data governance and digital inclusion require a coordinated regional response,” the Minister stated.

She further urged the region to become active contributors in the development of emerging technologies.

“We must not only consume artificial intelligence technologies developed elsewhere. Africa must participate in designing them, shaping them and ensuring that our languages, realities and priorities are reflected in the systems that will define the future,” she said.

The opening day also featured strategic workshops and policy discussions focused on internet governance, emerging technologies, connectivity, digital rights and regional cooperation, setting the tone for continued engagement throughout the five-day forum.

Photos from the opening session

27/03/2026